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Volunteering in the COVID-19 Crisis

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We really do need some fit and well volunteers to help delivering food and medicines for our most vulnerable people. We already have some but would like more as do all of our fellow voluntary sector support organisations. If you are a car driver we want to support those who use their cars to help their community.
If you are using your own car for voluntary purposes to transport medicines or groceries to support others who are impacted by Covid-19, your cover will not be affected. You do not need to contact your insurer to update your documents or extend your cover. This applies to all categories of NHS Volunteer Responders, including transporting patients, equipment, or other essential supplies.

https://www.abi.org.uk/news/news-articles/motor-and-home-insurance-commitments/

For people who want to volunteer through the COVID19 crisis please follow the following guidelines:
Register with your local Hampshire volunteer centrelocal Hampshire volunteer centrelocal Hampshire volunteer centre. Volunteer centres are there to provide support at a local level for individual volunteers and volunteer involving organisations. They can ensure that voluntary action is mobilized where it is needed and in a safe and, where required, legally compliant way.

If you cannot register with a volunteer centre, informal volunteering is fine for people that you know e.g. neighbours, friends, relatives. However when volunteering for strangers, to protect both parties it is advised to have DBS or identity checking, a service also undertaken by Volunteer Centre/Councils for Voluntary Services.

If you have a DBS completed in the last two years, it might be that you do not need a new one. Please contact us at One Community or your local volunteer centre.

Our contact details are tel: 023 8090 2400 or email vss@1community.org.uk

 

 

Present idea for someone who has everything!

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GIVE THE GIFT OF TIME!

Pledge to volunteer in 2020 in someone else’s name for 50, 100 or 250 hours. Yes

  • 50 hours could equal one hour a week visiting a lonely person, or fundraising for a minibus.
  • 100 hours could equal driving for a local group, or providing IT or admin support.
  • 250 hours could equal volunteering in a museum, hospital or charity shop.

We can help you to find the right role for you and produce a personalised gift certificate and letter for you to give to the recipient of your gift. Perfect for Christmas, birthday or thank you gifts.

Auntie Doris might get lots of visitors, but she might be thrilled to know you are visiting older people who don’t see anyone, and that you are doing it as a gift to her.

Find out more about how to make a pledge by contacting us on 023 8090 2457 or emailing us volunteer@1community.org.uk

Hampshire Volunteer survey

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We are sharing this with you as we know lots of you are volunteers or are involved with organisations who are involved with volunteers.

Hampshire County Council in partnership with Hampshire CVS Network and the University of Winchester wants to find out more about Hampshire residents’ attitudes to volunteering and informal help-giving, particularly in relation to supporting older people. As part of this outreach we would like you to assist us in publicising a survey open to the general public.

 

Please publicise our survey:

 

The public survey here asks for feedback on:

 

  • Whether there are particular types of volunteering opportunities that attract people more than others 
  • More generally, what might attract people to volunteering
  • The barriers that would prevent someone from becoming a volunteer
  • The support might people need to help them to step forward
  • Whether people would want to access support from volunteers, and if so, how would they wish to do this?

 

The survey takes about 10 minutes to complete, and is open now for adults of all ages to respond.  The survey closes on 30 November 2019.

 

Please take our organisation survey if you work with volunteers:

 

The County Council and partners are also keen to get the views of community organisations, on how they currently deploy volunteers, and what future demand for volunteers might look like. To take the organisation survey click here.

 

We appreciate your support and look forward to the findings and strengthening our connections across Hampshire.

Back to the Future

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Back to the Future.

Back to the Future is the name of our re-engagement scheme where we help people at risk of loneliness and further isolation by visiting and accompanying them out and about.

Loneliness and social isolation is a huge problem among older people and others who find it difficult to get out and about.

Who is back to the future for?

Many people in the local area live on their own and there may be times when they feel the need for a volunteer visitor to come and chat with them. It may be a result of a

  • Bereavement
  • Stay in hospital
  • Change in circumstances
  • Spell of depression
  • House move

The reasons may vary, but the opportunity to chat with someone can often help to overcome the problems of the moment and enable people to get their lives in order again.

If you know of anyone who could benefit from this service please contact Options Manager, Hayley Malcolm on 023 8090 2416 or email hmalcolm@1community.org.uk

We often have volunteer opportunities appearing on our site but this is something different. So if you are a friendly person, why not give this some thought?

Have you got a couple of hours or more? You could volunteer for us and visit someone who is older and or has a physical disability.

Volunteers visit a client at home for an hour or two, to chat to someone who finds it difficult to get out of the house and finds themselves feeling lonely. Our aim is to support the client to re-engage with their community, by perhaps going to a lunch club, do their own shopping, with the aim of them going out on their own.

Being a volunteer visitor is a very flexible role, with visits arrange at the mutual convenience of the volunteer and client. It is a role that fits around any other commitments you may have.

While volunteers are welcome from across the borough, volunteers are particularly needed in the Southern Parishes of Botley, Bursledon, Hamble, Hedge End, Hound, Netley and West End to meet the needs of local people.

Training is given and full support and supervision are provided, with mileage expenses paid at 45p per mile.

If you are interested, please contact our Volunteer Centre on 023 8090 2458 or email volunteer@1community.org.uk

Fareham Opportunities Fair 2019

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Twenty-three voluntary and community groups set up stands at the One Community Summer Volunteer and Community Opportunities Fair on a blisteringly hot day – Friday 12 July – in West Street, Fareham. The Fair was to promote voluntary and community activity in the borough of Fareham and to engage with people out and about in the town centre.
Organiser Hayley Hamlett said,

“It’s a great way to meet people who might never have thought about volunteering before, or to let people know about the services and activities that might be useful to them or their family members.”

Colourful stands attracted passers-by, and groups including Trefoil Guild, Scouts, British Legion, Fareham Library, Open Sight, and others supporting disabled people and refugees, were able to speak to those who may not have been aware of them before.

BUS PHOTO COMPETITION

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INSTAGRAM Photo Competition.

1) Take a photo of a One Community bus.
2) Upload photo of our bus onto INSTAGRAM.
3) Tag @1Comm

We have two prizes.

Prize 1 is for the most tagged photos of different buses.

Prize 2 is for the BEST photo of a One Community bus.

Prizes for the winners to choose from are:
A cinema light box and pocket photography book or an afternoon tea for 2.

Our Transport team are skilled at getting people on our buses and taking them to our Day Services. Our buses take people to groups and clubs or into the town to do some shopping. We have a Dial-A-Ride service and a really good service to take people to the Marks and Spencer and Sainsbury’s retail site. We often run trips and days out for our passengers.

We do need more drivers for our buses and if you can give us a few hours of your time we would love to have you in our team. We will help you with getting all your paperwork and MiDAS training through. Just ring 023 8090 2400 or email volunteer@1community.org.uk.

Selfies in Fareham!

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Want to star in our selfie frame? Come on, you know you want to!

Just stop by our one community shop in Fareham shopping centre, right near B & M and Debenhams. We can chat to you about volunteering and why it would be a FABULOUS thing for you to be doing- even for just a couple of hours. We have a range of things you could think about from helping in shops to making cups of tea for someone and watching the cricket.

There’s such a great team of volunteers at Fareham we thought we should celebrate you all so you would be extremely welcome in our selfie frame of glory!

Here is Santa trying it out!

Citizen of Honour Award

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What wonderful news!

Prof Sri Kandiah (ex chair of trustees for One Community) and volunteer Audrey Steele received a special award from Eastleigh Borough Council, “The Citizen of Honour”.

Many people attended the award ceremony last week. They were completely overwhelmed by the amount these two people have given to helping others in our community.

The Citizen of Honour awards are given by the Council every two years in recognition of long and exceptional service for the community. Each person received a Citizen of Honour badge and certificate.


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Like driving? Drive for us!

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Look at these glorious buses!

Aren’t they beauties?

If you have a few hours to give (literally 2 hours would be fabulous), we would LOVE to have you driving these buses. We do MiDAS training and will get all your forms up together.

We are fundraising through LIONS for a brand new bus, (Quiz night coming up)maybe you will get a go on that? Tempting eh?

Here is a comment from one of our drivers about the variety of journeys they get involved with.

“The day trips I do are normally to different pubs. The favourite pub is the Inn By The Swan at Lee on Solent. They love the carvery there and the staff are so very helpful, we stop off at the sea front on a good day and they like to have an ice cream and watch the sea for a while. We then stop at a local farm shop where they all trundle off the mini bus and buy fruit, veg and flowers of the season. I normally have two bus loads and the drivers help me with getting the food for passengers that have difficulties.”

Also, we need people to drive their own cars about to take people from A to B.

It is good fun and we have a wonderful set of passengers who would love to meet you.

Email us volunteer@1community.org.uk

Ring us on 023 8090 2400 and ask about joining our volunteer drivers team.

Very generous Easter Bunnies!

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Our wonderful passengers help young carers.

For Easter many Hedge End Park & Dial-A-Ride passengers collected over 200 Easter eggs for young carers. They have collected so much for the lovely young carers who deserve all the great gifts donated by our kind passengers. This is not the first time they have provided such generous gifts and over the years hundreds of eggs have been given alongside other lovely things.

Our passengers have noticed that a little bit of kindness really does go a very long way. We think they are GREAT!

You could give us a bit of kindness very easily.

  1. Sign up for AmazonSmile when you do your shopping online.
  2. Volunteer for a few hours a week, we will find you something to suit your talents and time.
  3. Train with us and DRIVE OUR BEAUTIFUL BUSES (with these cracking passengers on them!)
  4. Donate £5 by texting 1COM5 to 70085 for us to run dial-ride & our other services, like young carers (we won’t bother you with marketing texts.)
  5. Ring us on 023 8090 2400 or email info@1community.org.uk and register to use our bus services.

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